The Taloga Advocate. (Taloga, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 11, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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TERRITORY TOPICS
Returned 131 Indictments — The
federal grand jury at Muskogee com-
jileted its work returning 131 indirt-
ments and examining 214 witnesses
To Have a Plour Mill — Adam
Peace a wealthy farmer and stock
man living eleven miles soulh of
Hoynton has decided to build a flour
mill at Boynton
Both Died Shooting — Two negroes
Will Robinson and Jack Roland were
killed Sunday in a duel on Pecan
ereek eight miles west of Musko-
gee To Have Labor Temple— A propo-
sition from the Territorial Federation
of Labor and the Territorial Farmers’
Union looking -to the establishment
of a $330(10 labor temple has been
made to Shawnee and will be accept-
ed NewSchool District — A school
district was organized last week and
a school building will be put up at
Ragsdale Beaver county Some of
the eighty members of the district
are recent arrivals from New York
and Maine
Muskogee Meeting Off — H P
Street manager of the Street Fur-
niture Company has received the an-
nouncement that the Territorial Un-
dertakers’ Association w'ould not hold
its annual convention in Muskogee
as was formerly arranged by the asso-
ciation Floods in the Lowlands — A severe
rain and hail storjn passed over
Southwestern Oklahoma causing se-
vere floods in the lowlands and dam-
aging crops more or less The Fort
Worth railway bridge over the Cana-
dian river was washed out and other
bridges are said to have been dam-
aged Fractures Brother’s Skull — A boy
12 years old named Walter Hanson
was seriously injured at Walter The
Fall Out of Bed Fatal— Frank Me
Neal the 13 months old son of Mr
and Mrs Charles McNeal of Grand
1 loti of injuries resulting from fallln
out of bed two days ago
Lincoln County Bank Looted — A
bunk at Kendrick Ok has been loot
ed by four robbers and In an endoav
or to protect the deposits Justice
Davis w-as shot The robbers escap-
ed on foot with $100 in silver and oth
er deposits
Indian Lands to be Leased — The
300000 acres of Kiowa-Comanohe and
Apache Indian lands now leased for
grazing purposes to cattlemen are to
be leased on July 1 for agriculture
purposes Such Is the text of a com
municatlon received at Lawton from
the commissioner of Indian affairs
Buried Baby Alive — The federal
grand Jury at Pawhuska Indicted Mrs
Yellow Horse and daughter Osage
squaws for the murder of the latter's
Infant by burying It alive Both wo
men were arrested pleaded not guilty
and were remanded to the Pawnee
county jail without ball until the next
court term
Fell Off Hotel Roof — At ‘Bartles-
ville I T Bob O’Shea a salesman
for a Fort Smith overalls factory
while Intoxicated got on the roof of
the Rightway hotel and fell Into a
concrete areaway He was found
dead He formerly worked at Vinita
seven yeard and leaves a widow and
children
To Visit Muskogee — The Commer-
cial Club of Muskogee wdll entertain
the commercial organization of Okla-
homa City on the evening of May 12
as well as the National Editorial Asso-
ciation which w’ill be there on the
same day Both organizations will
arrive at 5 o’clock and remain until
the next day
Cattle Train Wrecked— The wreck
of a trainload of cattle at Jennings Is
reported
Indian Woman Gives Bond — Mrs
Yellow Horse the Indian womnn hi-
WHY CALLED -8UCKET SHOPS"
Small Trading Places Were Thus
Referred to In Derision
“Bucket shops” were called
“bucket shops’’ because when they
dieted at Pawhuska on a charge of I were first started in Chicago the only
burying her baby alive gave bond at I article dealt in by the small specula
Perry for $)immii Itors'to any extent was wheat The
Recorder Missing — A R Madison I ?slUmale brokers would not handle
city recorder Of Fort Gibson has been I n (fder for not less than 5000 bush
missing for two or three weeks and I t‘s 8nl lot of places sprung up
the council Is said to have discovered I here men could speculate on as
a shortage of $000 In hs accounts All I 8maII capital as $1 and this class of
the city records have been destroyed speculators were spoken of con-
Many Children Are Sickly
Mother Gray’s Sweet Fowders for Children j
used by Mother Gray a nurse in Children’ 1
HomeNew York CurFeverishnessIlead-
ache Stomach Trouble Teething Dis-
orders Break np Colds and Destroy Worms
AtallDruRRists’250 Sample mailed FREE (
Address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy N Y
and the city Is in a had financial condition
On Insurance Report — Territorial
Secretary Grimes commenced his re-
port of the life casualty and fire In
surance companies In the territory
Last year the ratio of the losses to
premiums was 45C per cent In 1903
522 per cent and la 1902 39 per
cent
temptuously as buying and selling
wheat by the bucketful Hence shops
where a small business was conduct-
ed In grain on a margin became
known as “bucket shops “ and the
term was eventually applied to I all
brokerage In stock and grain where
the amounts dealt in were smaller
than legitimate dealers - or brokers
would handle and more particularly
Action of the Eyelids
An eminent scientist has estimated
that the average man’s eyelids open
snd shut 4000000 times during the
year
to places where there were really no
Struck Gas at Ardmore — "W hilo lej-itimato transactions but the pro-
prietor and his customers simply bet
on the market the proprietor allow-
ing the customer to take either end
of the bet in consideration of a corn-
drilling for oil on the Hosea Town-
send property west of Ardmore a
flow of gas was struck The flow was
of sufficient force to shoot through
1100 feet of water throwing sand and
water in the air Drilling for oil will
be continued
Eufaula to Have Fair — A fair asso-
ciation will be organized in Eufaula
The enterprise is being backed by
$100 Reward $100
Tbe reader of Jh! paper will be pleeaed to feeni
that there It et leatf one l reeded dlaeeae that science
hat been able to cure In all lia aiawea and that le
(atarrh Haifa Catarrh Cure (a the only ptmlilre
cure now known to the metllral fraternity Catarrh
being a conatltutionnl d!eeae reqitlree a ContUlu
tloonl treatment lUIl t Catarrh Cure la taken ln
ternally acting UlrecHy upon the blood and mucoue
surface of the syntein thereby destroying the J
foumlat'oi of the disease and giving the patient
tireogih by building up the conmltuilon and aaaltt i
log nature In doing 1 1 work The proprietor! have 1
ao much faith In lie curative power that they offer -One
Hundred Hollars for any caaa that U fall U
Cura heud for list of testimonial
Address K J t IIENKV CO Toledo O
bold by all Orugglsts 75c f
lake Half Family Hills for constipation
If we could feel all wo see intelli-
gence would be a marked monstrosity
Indian Head N W T t
- Jan 20th 1904 j
mission which was in reality his per Immigration Branch Department of-
centagc in the game the Interior Ottawa Canada:
Am sending you the return of two '
A Great Discovery fields of wheat grown on my homo
Clayton Tex May 1st— (Special) farm yast year These returns are i
—That a genuine cure for Diabetes perfectly accurate and not over-esti-
the business men of this eitv and I bas been discovered Is the opinion of mted-
uie uubiutss men or mis cuy ana I M I summer-fallow about one-third of
many of the farmers will take stock J: J!' ®fJh ®p c ’ SpeaHmy farm every year and afterward
lng o the matter Mr Bailey says: take ofl two cr'pJ and 6Ummer-falIow
I believe Dodd s Kidney Pills Is again The summer-fallow Is ploughed
the best remedy for Diabetes and the twice during the summer first shal-
Qnly one that has ever been discover- low afterwards deep and no weed al-
ed that w ill cure Diabetes I lowed to grow The stubble is left
I have a genuine case of Diabetes 88 long as-possible when cutting the
I have taken seven boxes of Dodd's first cr°P and 13 burned the following
A tract of ground near the city will
be purchased to be converted Into a
fair ground and racing course
Did’ She Bury Child Alive? — An In-
dictment on the charge of murder has
been returned against Mrs Yellow-
horse at Pawhuska It Is charged iJUdney Pills and am still taking them ®Prln& drilled directly afterwards and
w I ° I hn v?a1 ImMKmm fTl 1 ! M a
Biggest Cattle Drive — One of the
biggest cattle drives oflate years will
take place between now and June 30
when the Immense herds of cattle are
taken from the Kiowa Comanche and
Apache pastures reservation of Okla-
homa In order to vacate the land
which Is soon to be leased for agrl
cultural purposes
Sold Liquor to Indians — United
States Marshal Frey left Lawton for
boy and his brother were digging In a Guthrie with W M Beardon J A
cellar when the latter struck him over
the eye fracturing his skull The In-
jured hoy is in a very precarious condition
1 Enid's Rapid Growth — The result
of the complete census of Enid taken
by G M Parks has been announced
and it caused much Joy It showed
I24S0 inhabitants although the com-
mercial club here which is very con-
servative has only been claiming
10000- Therefore the result Is very
gratifying
$1000 For Good Roads — The busi-
ness men of Alva are pushing the good
roads movement At a meeting of
the Commercial Club a large number
of business men were present and
$1000 was raised to be applied to
bettering the condition of the road
across the sand on the river north of
town
Help Themselves to Cement — D C
Smith assistant attorney general
went to Cement Caddo county to in-
vestigate the report that cement is
being removed from a school land
claim there There is a rich deposit
and the report is that the cement is
being taken away by the train load
against the ruling of the school land
department
Cattle Train Wrecked — The wreck
of a trainload of cattle at Jennings
is reported The cattle were from
Texas and of fifteen cars but seven
reached the Osage country Eight
ears were wrecked and most of the
cattle killed or crippled About
10000 head of cattle are being ship-
ped through Jennings in Pawnee
county into the Osage country
No Lumber Indictments — The
special grand jury convened to in-
vestigate the alleged combine be-
tween the local lumber dealers in
Muskogee adjourned without return-
ing any indictments The failure of
’the jury to learn anything was due to
the fact that fourteen of the princi-
pal witnesses for whom subpoenas
were issued left town on the even-
ing before the grand jury convened
and have not since returned
Busy in Tulsa District — There has
been no shutdown in oil development
in the Tulsa district Between the
securing of new leases letting of con-
tracts and the actual drilling of wells
the 2000 or 3000 oil men in the field
are very busy A cutting in price
means little to the territory operator
from the simple fact that he is selling
very little oil The pipe line from
Kansas has only been finished a short
time and the pumping stations are
under construction so t lie oil pur-
chasing agent of the Standard is not
in the field The Standard tanks
are all filled and there is no more
room for oil in them In the mean-
time development is being pushed
everywhere i
Miller and William Boles who plead-
ed guilty to the charge of selling
liquor to Indians They will be plac-
ed In the federal jail to await the ac-
tion of the grand jury or the giving
of appearance bonds
Honored a Requisition — Governor
Ferguson honored a requisition issued
on him by Governor Lanham of
Texas for the return of G W Mor-
gan who is under the indictment of
removing mortgaged property from
the state Sheriff O W Lee was In
Guthrie this morning and left for
Texas with Morgan
Tahlequah’s Fire Company — A
volunteer fire company has been or-
ganized at Tahlequah which will be
called the AVaddie Hudson Hose Com-
pany No 2 The officers are: Wad-
die Hudson chief E W Gnatt fore-
man Ed Lutz first assistant fore-
man W P-Clemer second assistant
foreman R D Richards secretary
and treasurer
Corner Stone Laid — At Lawton the
cornerstone of the court house was
laid under the auspices of the Ma-
sonic lodge It Is the largest stone in
the court house and has carved upon
it the Masonic emblem name of the
lodge and the year 1905 Judge D D
Leach past grand master of Masons
was present from Oklahoma City and
delivered the address
that she bAried her child alive un-
der a pile of stones and -left it to die
there Her child was sick but It Is
claimed she buried it before it died
Gun on Riding Plow — William Tin-
dall was killed near Perry by the acci-
dental discharge of a shotgun he was
carrying with him on a riding plow
to shoot plover while he was at work
His father was with him and heard
the shot but did not notice for some
time that his son had been killed
Chaffee Bared His Head — While
They have helped me so much that I 5" fter drjm?g’ Jhis gives
am nnn much better result than fall-plough-
am now up and able to work some I jng
believe that if I had conformed strict-1 vi i Quarter-section
Field No 1 Quarter-section fal-
ly to a Diabetes diet I would now have lowed 1903 yield 37 bushels per acre
been completely cured” This wheat is netting at present time
Dodd's Kidney Pills have cured bun- 88c per bushel
dreds of cases of Diabetes and never For 37 bushels per acre $325$
once failed It Is an old saying that - Per acre
what will cure Diabetes will cure any I summer-fallow-
form of Kidney Disease and that’s I I1? A903' "a"” Vi’ ’ '
lust pxnrtiv uhet Tvaa’o Tiiie ®eed wheat and seeding 160
Just exactly what Dodd’s Kidney Pills
do They cure all kidney diseases Threshing (owner s ma-
65
from Backache to Bright’s Disease
People who are liberal with their
viewing from a high point in the mill-1 troubles are roost always stingy with
tary reservation the city named in everything else
honor of General Lawton Lieutenant I -
General Chaffee bared his head in I Don’t you know that Defiance Starch
reverence General Chaffee and his I beslde® being absolutely superior to
chine) 2c per bush 74
Hauling to elevators at '
2c rer bush 74
y
$763
Profit after allowing expenses
per acre $2493
Field No 2 — Stubble field 80 acres
staff inspected Fort Sill and departed age andieV at Va mence ‘aslt “"I 6°!d the ’at at 88c per busheL
for San Antonio They were ac-1
companied by a number of Frisco gen-
eral officials on a special train
ounce packages of other kinds?
Race Trouble Reported — Race I
trouble is reported from Claremore
I T Two negroes came to Claremore
and James Buchanan Homer Wlson
Perry Burns and others attempted to j
make them leave towp In the row
a number of shots were fired and one I
of the negroes was wounded in the
leg which was afterward amputated
Elevating unrealities make the re-
alities more pleasureable '
ECZEMA FOR TWO YEARS
Little Girl’s Awful Suffering With Ter-
rible Skin Humor — Sleepless
Nights for Mother — Speed y
Cure by Cuticura
Yield per acre 25 bushels per
acre $2200
Cost: — Per acre
Seed wheat and seeding$150
Cutting stacking 65
Threshing (owner’s ma-
chine) 2c per bush 50
Hauling to elevator 2c
per bush 50
$315
A
Profit after expense- $1885
”My little girl had been suffering
for two years from eczema and dur-
James Buchanan was shot and fatally I ing that time I could not get a night’s
wounded I eieep as her ailment was very severe
Women Want No Scalping— When I bad tried so many remedies deriv-
Governor Ferguson returned from a I n0 benefit I had given up all hope
week’s trip through Blaine and King- But as a last resort I was persuaded oats and barley
Profit from one plowing $4378
I am sending you the yield of these
two fields whieh are both In my home
farm I thought they might be inter-
s esting reading for you Had 19500
bushels of wheat on my different
farms and between 5000 and 6000 of
fisher counties he found on his desk
a number of letters from club women
of Kansas and Oklahoma asking him
to prevent the scalping of a man by
Chief Geronimo at the ’ 101 ’ ’ ranch
celebration The governor informed
the women that no one would he
scalped and there would be no cruelty
to man or beast
to try Cuticura and one box of the
Ointment and two bottles of the Re-
solvent together with the Soap ef-
fected a permanent cure — Mrs I B
Jones Addington Ind T”
I remain
Yours very truly
(Sgd) Alfred Wilson
Agents of the Government of Cana-
da will be pleased to furnish full in-
formation as to rates
How vainly some trying to hide j
trifleness with pride
The help we are to others proves a
venerable help to ourselves
$1 a Bushel For Castor Beans —
Secretary J B Thoburn of the terri-
torial board of agriculture is trying I Stand Dr Pierce’s Family Medicines in
HLL ULO'NR
To Have a Third Hotel — Muskogee
is to have another hotel which will be
conducted on the European plan It
will be five stories high and will be
equipped with all the accessories of a
modern hostelry The hotel will be
located near the Frisco and Midland
Valley stations Muskogee already
has two first-class hotels — the Turner
recently opened and the Katy owned
and operated by the M K & T Rail-
way Company
to encourage the culture of castor I
beans in Oklahoma Castqr beaus
were cultivated to a great extent sev-1
eral years ago but were dropped be-
cause there was no market for them
An oil company of St Louis has sent j
a carload of castor beans to Oklahoma
City and is trying to encourage plant-
ing A minimum price of $1 per
bushel is guaranteed for all the beans
raised
a class by themselves being the only
proprietary medicines manufactured
and preserved without the use of alco-
hol Dr' Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
and Dr Pierce’6 Golden Medical Dis-
No Lumber Indictments — The
special grand jury convened to in-
vestigate the alleged combine be-
tween the local lumber dealers in
Muskogee adjourned without return-
ing any indictments The failure of
the jury to learn anything was due
to the fact that fourteen of the princi-
pal witnesses for whom subpoenaes
were issued left town on the evening
before the grand jury convened and
have not since returned
Woman Fatally Burned — At Enid
Mrs Charles E Havens 39 vars of
age wife of a prominent lnisiness
man and daughter-in-law of Colonel
H E Havens was fatally burned by
an explosion of gasoline In wiping
up some oil that had escapui from
the stove her clothing became saturat-
ed with the fluid and when she at-
tempted to light the oil stove the gas
flashed up enveloping her in flames
Her clothing was entirely burned off
and her entire body copked to a criso
She died in agony j
Boll Weevil Quarantine — Secretary
J B Thoburn of the territorial board
of agriculture has been requested to
attend the convention of the state j
commissioners of agriculture and en- j
tomologists at Atlanta Ca on May j
6 Georgia wants to adopt a boll wee-
vil quarantine law similar to the one
prepared by Secretary Thoburn and
passed by the legislature here last
winter It Is not likely that Mr Tho-
burn can attend but instructors from
the territorial agricultural college of
Oklahoma will be present
New Discovery — H M Vane? em-
ployed In the Cherokee division oi
the Dawes Commission claims a new
discovery in the way of incubation
I Buffered tor more than seven yearn with
a very complicated form of female trouble
accompanied with nervous prostration and
after doctorlnsr with six physicians (all bear-
ing excellent reputations) was Informed that
unless an operation was performed 1 would
be -an Invalid all my llfa Hearing of the
wonderful cures effected by Dr R V Pierce's
remedies and believing that there must be a
cure for almost every aliment I determined
to make one more effort I wrote to Dr
Pierce and I will never forget hla kindly ad- '
T?e' ljh'ig me to follow his instructions
faithfully and not to submit to au operation
“U? mjnbs my Improvement was so no-
ticeable to friends that they began to inquire
about my method of treatment 1 was
pleased to tell them of the wonderful means
of cure that I had most fortunately found
and as so many ladies applied to me for
Information regarding Dr Pierce's world-
famed medicines and his plans of treatment
I felt In duty bound to give them the benefit
of my experience so told them the facts
The largo number of positive cures effected
by Dr Pierce's remedies alone used by my
recommendation seemed in one year's time
nothing short of a miracle I couldn’t have
believed It had 1 not seen the parties and
known the facts”
AIX AliONB"
covery do not contain opium or other
One of his sitting hens refused to stay harmful drugs They are compounds
in the nest and before’ leaving it I of medicinal principles scientifically
broke all her eggs but three Mr I extracted from indigenous’ roots that
Vance then took the eggs I hat were I cure tbe diseases for which they are
recommended They are medicines
which have enjoyed the public confi-
fore they got cold and put an electric I dence for over a third of a century
light bulb in the box The heat from Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
the light bulb proved first-class incu-
bation and in twenty-four hours ev-
ery egg had hatched a strong heaitliy
'hickcn
cures women’s ills when all other rem
edies fail This is what Mrs H Har-
rison a prominent woman living at
No 112 West 2nd Street Sioux City
Iowa says about it :
Weak women are made strong aDd
sick women well bv the use of Doctor
Pierce’s Favorite Prescription It is
the one reliable regulator It dries
enfeebling drains heals inflammation
and ulceration and cures female weak
ness It nourishes the nerves invig-
orates and regulates the entire wom-
anly organism It makes the baby’s
advent practically painless and gives
strength to nursing mothers Accept
no substitute
If you want to know abont your
body read Dr Pierce’s Common f4nse
Medical Adviser which can be bad for
the cost of mailing 31 cents in one-
cent stamps for the cloth-bound book
or 21 stamps for the paper-covered
volume 1008 pages Address Doctor
R V Pierce Buffalo N Y
Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets clear the
complexion and sweeten the breath
they cleanse and regulate the stomach
liver and bowels and produce perma-
nent benefit and do not re-act on the
system One is a gentle laxative
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